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Kat Lister

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Stay afraid, but do it anyway / words: Guardian, Observer, i paper, the Quietus / lecturing: City University / agent: http://blakefriedmann.co.uk/kat-lister / book: https://blakefriedmann.co.uk/news/kat-lister-fragile-bodies-auction-weidenfeld

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Kat Lister @katlister.bsky.social · Jul 4

Hello everyone, I have exciting news! (📣):

Kat Lister’s beguiling exploration of art, FRAGILE BODIES, won at auction by Weidenfeld & Nicolson — Blake Friedmann

Kat Lister’s new non-fiction book FRAGILE BODIES: Art Born of Bodily Trauma, exploring the impact of physical adversity on the lives of seven extraordinary artists who confronted and transformed their...

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Kat Lister @katlister.bsky.social · 1d

It stayed with me for so many days…I genuinely don’t understand why it didn’t get more critical attention!

Kat Lister @katlister.bsky.social · 4d

She has fast become my favourite actress, but this film is something else, one of the most powerful and moving portraits of grief I’ve ever seen on screen

Kat Lister @katlister.bsky.social · 4d

Hold Me Tight for me, Vicky Krieps’ masterpiece, I think – & for the life of me I cannot understand why it didn’t get more attention

Kat Lister @katlister.bsky.social · 4d

But is it the dish or the film THE PEOPLE NEED TO KNOW

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James Hornsey @jameshornsey.bsky.social · 5d

Kat Lister @katlister.bsky.social · 5d

I still remember the machines that sat idle due to a lack of staff to operate them when Pat was going for radiotherapy nearly a decade ago. It was as appalling then as it is now. A six month wait for radiotherapy is a shocking state of affairs:

More than 60,000 cancer patients in England ‘not getting necessary radiotherapy’

Exclusive: Analysis of NHS data by Radiotherapy UK also shows some patients face waits of up to six months

www.theguardian.com

Kat Lister @katlister.bsky.social · 5d

“…& all the world is mind.” Virginia Woolf wrote this passage about the expansive interconnectedness of reading (in her diary) when she was 21 years old. Extraordinary.

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The Clientele @theclientele.bsky.social · 7d

Same shit, different church! we have added a second violet hour show as the first one sold out immediately.

Thur 27 November - St Matthias Church, Stoke Newington

tickets go on sale on Friday at midday UK time

link.dice.fm/I94a007793e0.

wegottickets.com/event/677968/

Kat Lister @katlister.bsky.social · 7d

Thanks also to curator Hilary Floe for talking me through the Tate's aims with this expansive exhibition which puts Miller's artistry front and centre. It was particularly gratifying for me to finally do away with that awful "muse" label. As Floe says in the piece, she is so much more than that

Kat Lister @katlister.bsky.social · 7d

With thanks to the equally extraordinary Antony Penrose who spoke of his mother with such grace. I am particularly grateful to him for engaging with my Qs concerning Miller's childhood trauma & the specificity of her gaze, which l've always felt gets to the heart of the fearlessness in her work

Kat Lister @katlister.bsky.social · 7d

Hello everyone, I wrote about the extraordinary lives of Lee Miller ahead of a major retrospective of her photography at Tate Britain – which opens tomorrow. And it's looking beautiful in the i Paper today! Read online here: inews.co.uk/culture/arts...

Kat Lister @katlister.bsky.social · 7d

Oh man! But alas, I can’t make it!

Kat Lister @katlister.bsky.social · 7d

Yes, exactly – and I suppose: nostalgia for who? I think that would tell you everything you need to know

Kat Lister @katlister.bsky.social · 7d

I've just taken a look at the iPlayer and holy moly! What a treat. Really pleased to see the Chelsea Hotel episode there, it's my favourite

Kat Lister @katlister.bsky.social · 7d

he was an incredibly generous man

Kat Lister @katlister.bsky.social · 7d

Isn’t it? I miss his voice.

Kat Lister @katlister.bsky.social · 8d

This didn't escape me this morning. I have just finished a big piece on Lee Miller (out this week) and I had exactly the same feeling about her work, too.

Kat Lister @katlister.bsky.social · 8d

That's the one I always recommend starting with, it's such a sucker punch! The bravest, boldest book.

Kat Lister @katlister.bsky.social · 8d

Yes, and what angered me the most about its use back then is that it put the onus on me, the woman, assuming I'm the problem because I can't take a joke

Kat Lister @katlister.bsky.social · 8d

That thing of "oh it's just banter" was used to justify so much sexism and misogyny and harassment during my years at NME and it was depressing to see how little that has changed when it comes to this band specifically – I just don't get it

Kat Lister @katlister.bsky.social · 8d

What gets me the most is how so many seemed perfectly capable of compartmentalising their continued racism – Liam's tweet being one such example

Kat Lister @katlister.bsky.social · 8d

An incredible piece of writing: eloquent, measured, but bang on the money when it comes to really dissecting what this kind of "nostalgia" means to people – and why

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Luke Turner @luketurner.bsky.social · 8d

Oasis stadium jaunt ends (for now), it has been odd seeing how massively they’re loved, and also odd that it is seen as churlish to critique it. For me, they inescapably represent the worst of the 90s, the banterous homophobia, the conservatism. It made life miserable & I struggle to get over that.

Kat Lister @katlister.bsky.social · 8d

I should also add that you can immerse yourself in Ginzburg's finely drawn worlds by heading to @dauntbookspub.bsky.social via this link:

Natalia Ginzburg | Daunt Books Publishing

Natalia Ginzburg (1916-1991) was born in Palermo, Sicily. She wrote dozens of essays, plays, short stories and novels, including Voices in the Evening, All Our Yesterdays and Family Lexicon, for which...

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Kat Lister @katlister.bsky.social · 8d

As today is International Translation Day, I thought I'd share this piece I wrote about one of my favourite writers, Natalia Ginzburg, a few years back. As @alexanderchee.bsky.social says in it: “How do we write about evil, especially when everything feels so wretched?” A writer that speaks to now:

The most exciting new voice in fiction is a woman who died 32 years ago

The Italian author has been mostly undiscovered in the UK. But new translations prove her work is more vital than ever